"Quarantine" (2008): Hey, We could actually have it Way Worse!
Some reviewers will tell you that "Quarantine" does not hold a candle to the Spanish original it is based upon, "[REC]". To those folks I politely say: "BEE-ESSS".
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I just finished watching both movies back-to-back on DVD. Hey, the predecessor kicks total backside. Period. And while the American follow-up matches it practically frame-by-frame (plus a heaping helping of Hollywoodized pump-up the volume antics, namely the incessant whirring of choppers overhead and the deliriously disorienting horrific action sequences), in a dearly rare feat of cinematic accomplishment, this remake may actually have eclipsed the original in terms of drop-dead dread and fear factor.
Exhibit 1: We bear witness as the pretty and effervescently unaffected TV reporter Angela Vidal (Jennifer Carpenter) alarmingly and organically transforms before our eyes into a terrified and trembling primitive human animal.
Exhibit 2: Stunningly stoic cameraman Scott Percival (Steve Harris, in a role which eerily never revealed the character's face in "[REC]") remarkably remains strong and stable despite the gruesome and gory images he is relentlessly recording. His Character invests new meaning in, and forever sets the standard for, the ultimate "steady cam" videographer.
Video Review of Steven Spielberg's Directorial Debut
"Duel"!
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JOHN SMISTAD, "THE QUICK FLICK CRITIC", talks Steven Spielberg's Highway of Horrors Classic "DUEL"!! - YouTube
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